versions only affect the versions
shipped with that license.
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x27;t resizeStack only called
once on startup and only once again whenever the orientation is changed?
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shift, people take vacations, etc., but support@ queues
are shared by multiple staff to cover such occurrences.
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am
omeone say that they felt it was a reasonable expectation
that they should be able to run CPU-maxing analytics programs on a
shared host for 7 or 8 hours at a time )>
It may be helpful to know what causes these unusual server loads.
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Jeff Reynolds wrote:
Any ideas on how to prevent the multiple copies of the app from getting fired
up?
The relaunch message is sent Windows for this purpose.
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ain text, perfectly suited for
the limitations of modern VCSes. Why not use that?
For binary stack files, Monte's lcVCS is being used in production on a
number of projects. Perhaps it may be well suited for yours as well.
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> Run: Cmd->
>> Toggle Breakpoint: Cmd-\
>
> Well, I can't say I'm much of a fan of hijacking the operating system
> keyboard shortcuts. That just leads to user confusion.
Which keys would you suggest that don't conflict with any shortcuts
provided in the Windows
ll the IDE and get to work with a good tool
set ready to go.
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f the specific string operations affected.
And of course kudos to the team for these optimizations, proving that
even if it takes a little time it's possible to add sweeping new
features and still maintain good performance.
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ually used
it for any practical task. Is there something in Node.js I may have
missed that would make it practical to exchange LiveCode objects with it?
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rther caveat that SQLite itself doesn't impose
restrictions on writes, so preventing concurrent writes is, as with most
files, up to the application.
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e address book of
any of the recipients.
Of course we can't rule out anything without more info, but given how
much of this spam I've been seeing I wouldn't be too concerned over the
unlikely possibility that Mark's laptop has been comprom
Richmond wrote:
> On 25/11/15 20:23, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Have you considered sending an email to Mark directly?
>
> I am unaware of a direct e-mail for Mark.
In the archives it's at the top of every post, e.g.:
<http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2015-Nove
ts of counting to ten before expressing annoyance is
that it provides your In Box a moment to catch up to find out if the
annoyance is needed at all.
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The next meeting of the SoCal LiveCode User Group is coming up Thursday,
December 3, at 7PM in Pasadena - details in the forums:
<http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=25836>
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This may help:
http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_FlightRecorder.livecode.gz
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True, for hangs and crashes the Flight Recorder is of limited utility.
This one logs to a file, so it may be more helpful in your circumstance:
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Peter M. Brigham wrote:
> I'm hardly a database expert, but it sounds as if a database of
> release notes with a flexible front end is the way to go.
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to just rely on LC's built-in encrypt and decrypt functions, which
provide access to 100 industrial-strength algos like Blowfish, AES-256,
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I would encourage folks to post notices in that forum for
online communities as well, so folks can have one-stop shopping for the
various groups on the Web.
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e devops, education, etc.
As for education, the Education Community Outreach project has a forum
section and a team leader, Max Shafer, and everyone interested in
exploring opportunities for learning materials, template stacks, tools,
and other resources to support the use of LiveCode in edu
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>
> That is a great post Steven! What a productive bunch you have been :-)
Ditto.
And especially nice to see such a disproportionately favorable number of
Linux devs using LC:
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ems reasonably well reflected in my
most recent benchmarks:
<http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=22072&start=45#p135752>
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Mark Wieder wrote:
> On 12/18/2015 03:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Mark Wieder wrote:
>> > Yeah, that's an impressive list.
>> >
>> > But "3.5x Faster" than what?
>> > It's like those ads that feature "20% less fat&quo
ot; so my
ignorance has yet to be abated; in my brief review of strace output from
file operations nothing stands out to me as an obvious bottleneck.
What opportunities do you see for streamlining file I/O?
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latform/pricing/>
Where can one find the pricing of the HTML5 deployment entitlement?
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m community contributions.
But none of that is an obligation, nor inhibits even substantial
commercial activity, provide I adhere to the terms of the license I'm
using: deploying proprietary apps only with a proprietary-licensed
edition, and sharing code when made with the sharing-fo
Just curious: anyone here use the emacsKeyBindings global property?
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to the RR Team and the use/dev list members and their Family
> and Friends! I would be lost without this list. Hope to see many of
> you good folks next August!
+100
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al go-to, but v7 will also be EOL'd once v8 is released,
and v8 has some performance improvements significant enough to merit
consideration, esp. in server environments where performance is most
critical.
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or forcing
copy.sh to execute as a specific user, but to no avail.
Any bash experts here to let me know how to resolve this?
TIA -
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have
root on that server so I logged in as the CGI process, generated a key
pair, copied the pub key to the other server, and now my CGI can handle
the transfer well.
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Bob Sneidar wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2015, at 13:22 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Yes, that was the problem - CGIs run as a different user. But
>> I have root on that server so I logged in as the CGI process,
>> generated a key pair, copied the pub key to the other serve
rk, and given their annoyingly well-enforced password policies I
feel okay with this setup for now.
I'd still prefer a wrapper solution, if only I could find one that
works. But for now at least a deadline is met, and with both machines
on the same rack the transfer speed is wonderfully fa
three times a year I do a Google search for "harden
Linux server", and then walk through the checklists I find to see what
they suggest and compare with what I'm doing. Always learn a few new
things that way.
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it just
edited and corrected?
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/livecodeusers/permalink/963679307004253/>
If you're not on FB feel free to post the answer here and I'll re-post
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e server again?
The environment function will return "server" when called within the LC
Server engine.
This is currently missing from the Dictionary entry for "environment",
reported:
<http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16658>
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27;t see "backups" in the Dictionary, but even if it were no keyword
should affect a string literal.
What are the permissions on the folder? What do "the result" and
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eger while "the result" is empty.
2 is "No such file or directory":
<http://www-numi.fnal.gov/offline_software/srt_public_context/WebDocs/Errors/unix_system_errors.html>
Double-check your path and you'll be good to go in no time.
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een updated
for v7 or v8):
<http://bjoernke.com/?target=bvgdocu>
Are there any other alternative Dictionary resources in the community,
other than the web-based mirror at
<https://livecode.com/resources/api/>? (I'd prefer something that can be
accessible even without an Intern
The SoCal LiveCode User Groups kicks off the new year with our next
meeting on Thursday, January 7 in Pasadena - details in the forum:
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nted
as alternatives in devolution once it's released. It would be nice to
offer at least one if we have a current one in our community, or more if
there are other such projects I'm unfamiliar with.
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ing the UbuCon Summit at SCaLE please
register here so they can make sure to have enough t-shirts on hand:
http://ubucon.org/
Hope to see you there. Year after year, SCaLE is among the most
educational and fun events I've attended.
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ce it's free as in gratis:
<http://www.stykz.net/>
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Richmond wrote:
On 06/01/16 17:55, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
>
http://denon-dj-asio-driver-mac.mac.novellshareware.com/info/pivot--revolution.html
>
> Oh, Super, it's multi-platform and its free!
>
> Animated GIFs all round.
Ken Ray built a competing tool u
easier and less
> verbose.
Seems very useful. Nice to have it in the extensibility subsystem, but
any chance it'll find its way into the main language?
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mitations of CGI we're limited to now.
If all we need is a new command to wrap the Linux "fork" call, after I
finish Love's book I may brush up on my C skills and give it a go.
But who wants to wait for that. Is there anyone in our community who
could do this now?
Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 8 Jan 2016, at 6:03 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> I think we need a new command that launches a specified process
>> but in a way that uses a call to "fork" to pass file descriptors
>> (which include sockets and other I/O i
ble to
>> scale, and indeed not having it prevents LC from being used in
>> traffic-heavy scenarios.
>
> I’m not saying it’s not useful, just suggesting letting something
> else do the forking might be a good idea.
I'm not particular how it's done; I'm just lookin
Todd Fabacher wrote:
>> Le 7 janv. 2016 ? 20:03, Richard Gaskin a ?crit :
>>
>> LiveCode is a great language, and if we had the ability to fork we
>> should be able to build a wide range of powerful, scalable,
>> efficient systems, breaking far beyond the limitati
e local copy of changed folders?
rsync -avz user@server:/path/to/server/folder/ local/folder/
rsync is preinstalled on OS X and Linux; Windows users can install
Cygwin to have it (and other great bash tools).
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Silly typo - yesterday when I wrote:
With portable HDDs selling at around US$50/GB multiple redundant backups
are easy, esp. with:
...of course I meant "US$50/TB" - it would be insane to pay $50/GB these
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ementation.
If not via forking by what means can we handle concurrency?
Multiprocessing through worker apps would be a solution except that we
have no way to pass the socket connection from the parent app that
received it to the child app it would launch.
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Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2016, at 6:21 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> If not via forking by what means can we handle concurrency?
>
> For Apache mod_fcgid will start multiple processes for you. As will
> spawn-fcgi if you aren’t running a web server that w
3600, it looks like one of the two systems hasn't
accounted for a shift in daylight time, or perhaps that daylight time
occurs on a different date in your time zone from the time zone the
server is in.
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Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2016, at 7:33 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> Now I'm super-confused: if we already have everything we need for
>> FastCGI under Apache, what's all the fuss about?
>
> Isn’t it you making the fuss ;-)
I seem to be in good
Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2016, at 8:24 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> I'm fine with writing some code so the main process hands off tasks
>> to workers. The issue I've run into is that I've found no way to
>> hand the socket connection to t
Try this:
on mouseUp
put "1/1/69" into t
convert t to secs
convert t to short date
put t
end mouseUp
Is there yet a convenient way to handle conversion of dates prior to 1/1/70?
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J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 1/8/2016 4:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Try this:
on mouseUp
put "1/1/69" into t
convert t to secs
convert t to short date
put t
end mouseUp
Is there yet a convenient way to handle conversion of dates prior to
1/1/70?
I get 1/1/69. I get the
Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2016, at 9:35 am, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> ...if one were to make a sort of Node.lc I would imagine they'd
>> need to hand off socket connections to workers, no?
>
> Or you could just act as an intermediary accepting connections
Monte Goulding wrote:
>> On 9 Jan 2016, at 11:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> I've used that and it seems to work well enough, but my concern is
>> that if scaled large enough it may be even better to not have a
>> single instance handling all connections.
now - but is LiveCode close enough to do them? I don't know.
That's what I'm hoping to learn.
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ty, and by extension the company and even
myself, if I could help find truly scalable solutions for using LiveCode
on a server.
But if I can't find 'em I have nothing less than the entire world of
options all other devs have to choose from. :)
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dunbarx wrote:
> On 1/8/2016 4:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Try this:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>put "1/1/69" into t
>>convert t to secs
>>convert t to short date
>>put t
>> end mouseUp
>
> I get the date you first
or bad, Governmental organizations last forever...
> Yeah, but don't they usually respond very slowly ?
> :-)
If anyone here releases a version of an app today that outlives the
google.com domain let me be the first to congratulate on having the most
desirable problem possible. :)
there, along
with simpler persistence, lend themselves to a greater depth in some
forums than we often see here. The "Engine Contributors" section and
others under the "LiveCode Open Source" heading can be especially
worthwhile for serious pros.
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rsync is preinstalled on OS X and Linux, and can be used on Windows when
the free Cygwin package is installed.
There are many tutorials on using rsync on OS X for backups - here's
just one:
<https://www.haykranen.nl/2008/05/05/rsync/>
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drugs, sorry, but I deleted your email. :)
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d UI to minimize interactions between them and thereby maximizing
flexibility across device types.
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ld be compromised.
An external perhaps?
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r where it is on the card; that's the
card's job. The group only takes care of its internals, so both the
card script and the component script are fairly independent of one another.
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Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On 12/01/2016 18:25, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Some time ago I submitted a request for BSONencode and BSONdecode:
>> <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15678>
>>
>> Peter's point there is well taken, that this could be
the URL is:
<http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_FlightRecorder.livecode.gz>
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Ben Rubinstein wrote:
> On 15/01/2016 14:42, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> The IDE insists on changing the name of the stack file when I do
>> Save As (necessary to maintain compatibility with older versions
>> of LC), and at some point I just gave up manually changing it to
Peter TB Brett wrote:
On 18/01/2016 15:01, Richard Gaskin wrote:
If I only used the IDE's File->Save command I'd get pretty good results,
as once you do a Save As within the IDE it stores the preferred
stackFileVersion in a custom property and uses that when saving (exce
an determine why they weren't acted on sooner.
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ce outlives the vendor's OS support, it
gets wiped with a Linux install where it gets a new and well supported
life, and all the bash commands I'd used on my Mac continue to work (but
in many cases with newer and less vulnerable components -- see the many
web articles about why A
Bob Sneidar wrote:
> On Jan 12, 2016, at 09:02 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> While it's true that Ubuntu and more recently Microsoft have begun
>> exploring convergence strategies for a single adaptable, scalable
>> set of UI conventions across all device types, t
e exciting new features, but the chances of regression go along with
that so your report will be very valuable.
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ot;documents") & "/" & tFileName)
into msg
> put cr & tResult after msg
>
> I was expecting:
> This is open/read/write/close
>
> What I'm getting:
> This is a test.open/read/write/close
Using v7.1.1 Stable on Ubuntu 14.04 I get:
This is o
e opportunity to look at the relevant part of the
engine source:
When using the statement above, is the engine clever enough to use an
append operation for that, or does it seek to the end of the file before
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> > put "Log entry data" after URL ("file:" &>
>> specialFolderPath("documents") & tLogFileName)
>>
>> When using the statement above, i
Kay C Lan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> Good find. How did you come across that bit of archaeology?
>
> Not that good, what you really need to know is whether the enhancement
> request was ever actioned.
I'd guess the URL form r
Colin Holgate wrote:
> Being letterboxed isn’t a quality issue, it isn’t even bad. It’s just
> that Apple would reject the app.
On what grounds?
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d more "Star Trek", a
tip of the hat to the centrally important role the core dev team has in
stewarding the LiveCode technology.
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y've set it up to prevent user-specific data writes. If so, writing
anywhere will be risky once they figure out they didn't do a complete
job and then nix the method you'd come up with.
Any chance they can tell you what they want?
Or use a network store?
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he property
> to disk and then load it.
IMNSHO it would be insane to lock the temp folder, given how many apps
rely on it.
That said, some admins are not sane. :)
I'd try it and see what happens, with fingers crossed.
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n which the variable contains only the name, ID, or ordinal number)
can be used by themselves quite well.
In fact, I haven't found a way to force the interpreter to includes
quotes in such cases, e.g. this:
put "File" into tObjName
put the
tacks that are plain text, easy to work
with, and integrate nicely with Github's merge.
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the window faster.
For screen shots I've been cheating: if I don't need to interact with
the things within the hole in a stack, I just put a graphic down, turn
on opaque, and set its ink to blendXor - shows through like a hole but
without having to use a custom windowShape.
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don't think
it's a bug it becomes a feature request for a see-through blend.
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Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Hmmm...maybe it's a bug in the Linux engine masquerading as a
> feature. I've only been using this on my own system, so I haven't
> had occasion to try it elsewhere.
>
> Or maybe it's a feature masquerading as a bug in OS X?
>
> Us
om this discussion, as they're the perfect
fit for cases like this where the number or names of variables can't be
known in advance - simpler to write, faster to run.
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.
When we need a compositor we know where to get it - after all, how else
could we run the cube? :)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QokOwvPxrE>
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Check out the recent pull requests for LC:
https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pulse
Lots of appearance-related stuff -- yoohoo!
Very nice to see those addressed, and so many of them!
Great work, team!
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ot;&pPage&",*)"
into tMatchPattern
filter lines of tList with regex pattern tMatchPattern
return tList
end foo2
function foo3 pPage, tList
repeat for each line tLine in tList
set the itemdel to tab
put item 3 of tLine into t1
put pPage &"," into
e moment, it's half hunch and half benchmarking to confirm the hunch.
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